I haven6got a dog but there are 3 dogs important to me. One is this guy and the other was this guy. Both dogs helped my son get over his fear of dogs. And then there was Rook, the 2ish year old jet black great Dane, who is a great big baby who lived down the road from me. Unfortunately his owners were evicted so the landlord could do extensive renovations and I don't see him anymore 😢
Just got Sammi home - it's like she's back to normal. She actually scarfed Zooki's roo mince which she wasn't supposed to have, inhaled the Hills vet food that she was, used the tray and is walking around reacquainting herself with the place.
If you saw her Wednesday and then today, the only difference in her is the shaved spot where they took the bloods. Oh and no purrs - I might be on her shit list for awhile.
Anyway ultrasound Wednesday, they're going to let me know what time.
Went to check out a school with/for the eldest minipeeler. It seems like such a great fit for him. So hard to get a school that can help him with his anxiety, school refusal and need for re-engagement. It's a tiny school though and they have such limited places. I'm not the praying kind but I'm praying for him to get accepted. We will formally begin the application process tomorrow for next year 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I’m having an unbelievably hard time of life. I’m just not getting a break.
Melbcat is feeling more comfortable with adequate pain relief though, ate some wet food and is cuddling. I’m waiting for Tuesday and counting down to receiving the antibiotics
Any improvement Sammi had was minimal, so I phoned the vet and they've admitted her for observation and further tests (including hopefully an abdominal ultrasound).
Cross fingers for us.
Payday today!! I'm trying to get the enthusiasm levels up like all you Wednesday pay people from last week, but when you have a strict budget it's all divided up and spent before you get it anyway.
It is nice seeing the car money creeping higher though - I've gone from "could buy another car the same as mine if I crash it" level to being able to get something that's a bit nicer. Slowly moving towards the point I can buy a car I would actually choose to buy without being forced by the death of my current one.
Monday pay people represent! The boss does our payslip in the morning but our pays sometime during the afternoon, so it's a small "yay" when I get the email and a bigger more relieved "YAY" when the bread is in the bag.
We used to get the pay slip available on the pay system some random time during the day, but there is no email or any notification so you just have to keep checking if it is there. Recently they started doing it earlier so it is there over the weekend which is much better. We have a stupidly complicated pay structure with varying penalty rates so we always have to go through and double check everything for errors (although not everyone's math skills are up to the task, so they probably get away with a lot of mistakes).
My bank now notifies me when the actual money goes into the bank, so that is always nice to see.
my pay doesn't land until Thursday night, dammit. I much preferred a previous job where it would arrive on a Tuesday afternoon. somehow that feels much more civilised.
Vet just called - as before, nothing detected in the external examination and nothing in the blood tests. They're going to x-ray her and if nothing shows up on that, organise an ultrasound. Also they'll give her fluids and an anti nausea injection since she has been vomiting on and off since Thursday.
works gone to complete and utter shit. We're being forced into this project that we all know is gonna end in a complete dumpster fire, but we (as in everyone in my department, managers included) cant do anything to stop it. Gonna chat to my boss and just say "look I cant reconcile this shit, you want it done? Fine, but I dont want to talk about it for a second more than we have to". The greater department has this habit of turning their meetings into therapy/bitching sessions and I'm just not here for it.
Till this Project Doom is completed we're sticking to facts any talking about it as little as possible.
thats fair enough isnt it? Honestly sat in the meeting where it was announced on seek, and I dont reckon I was alone in that.
I'm wary of places where meetings become therapy/bitch sessions. I never know how much that stuff is gonna get twisted, taken out of context, used against you etc. Risky overflow into unprofessional behaviour.
8.5 hours straight with no lunch break (by my own choice because I didn't want to spend even longer outside). Ugh, I had hoped it would be a short day today - it was easy at least, mostly support for someone else and driving - but just a lot of time standing around not working on my assignment, while my brain and guts are in stress overdrive again. I'm glad that my work now ends when I leave, but whose bright idea was it to reintroduce ongoing stress with uni!!!
I'm going to just eat and lie down for a bit before I attempt to do any uni stuff. I'm 70% of the way there. Just need to skim through enough articles to cite them appropriately...
When unlawful power is called out and given a good smacking? Always entertaining to watch from a safe distance. Unions are not per se bad, but when the power inherent in them is abused it's good to know that there are some ways to rein them in. You may be too young to remember the whole Painters & Dockers Union stuff, but they did things like murder people. As well as run-of-the-mill corruption and stuff. No-one was surprised when that union was forcibly de-registered - except maybe the members of the union. Seems like the CFMEU have forgotten that lesson.
My biggest concern about this whole saga is how long it's taken to get to this point. I worked on CFMEU sites for a decade or so (non union role) and thought it was bad then. Like absolutely transparent corruption and no one seemed to care.
Also disappointing that unions are meant to protect workers against shit conditions and bad management. Now they're becoming the monster they were suppose to slay.
The cultist mentality is pretty messed up too. Glad it's being taken care of, but I don't trust either gov party to act as administrators.
Yeah, the whole power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely thing. Unfortunately inevitable, unless there is robust pushback from the rank & file. Same thing happens with political parties. The point of short electoral cycles is that the bad apples can be booted out before they've done much damage. Variable election dates also help with the booting process. What gets really nasty is a fixed election cycle like in the USA - where the last 2 years of an election cycle is spent getting re-elected instead of actually accomplishing anything. The appointment of a 'king' with no pre-specified end date for power works quite well if the 'king' is sensible, but if a bad apple gets power ....
Pushback from union members would be something, but unfortunately there was very visible intimidation from Setka's supporters. The more I look at our Federal 3 year terms the more I appreciate it. Also having 8-10 weeks for an election is perfect.
Geez this stranded astronaut thing is a schmozzle. They are doing a lot of ‘everything is fine’ PR, but it must be stressful to be stuck up there, and I’m sure there are some very tense discussions being had.
I feel really sorry for them, they certainly didn't sign up for this. It reminds me of Sergei Krikalev, the guy who was stuck in space while the Soviet union collapsed and the country that sent him into space no longer existed.
Recruiters' commission is monthly and job ads are usually up for 2 weeks. Applying for something that's going to close soon now means they'll try extra hard to place you before the month ends.
I want to know why my very top lemon, at least 2.something metres up was eaten by something (guessing a rat) and they ignored the many lower ones. Is it sport? showing off? Big respect but that would not have been easy.
One thing I'm really quite good at is packing to go on a trip really quickly. I've got like 3 laptops, an ipad, a 27" monitor, a media streamer, PS5 controller and all manner of cables, my clothes and my CPAP machine all fitting snuggly into my trusty suitcase. Then I have my backpack of stuff and a tote with foodstuffs and my blender. All took maybe 30-40 minutes and there was a shower in there too.
I hadn't been back to see the replies until now but this trip is a week at my parents housesitting so most of the electronics are for work. I have my personal laptop for personal stuff/gaming, work MacBook pro which I'm using now, work iPad, work windows laptop which I'm configuring as a Cloud PC kiosk device. Each of these serve different functions I'm testing. I probably could have left the iPad at home to be honest but it doesn't take up much room so I threw it in in case someone needed me to test something.
The shower was something I had in those 30-40 minutes not something I packed in my bag lol
My media streamer is an NVIDIA Shield Pro. I only brought it because my parents TV is too old for most streaming apps to work properly and now that I'm using the iPhone I can't stream to the Chromecast I gave them years ago.
If I'm going proper traveling none of the work stuff comes with me, or the monitor.
I was surprised by the Wattle Festival and just the sheer size of it yesterday. We only did part of the main street of Hurstbridge and we hardly got to the whole thing.
Yes, they had the steam train out again. I might try to get the kids on there next year because they were getting tired around 11 and we had afternoon plans. We got to see it leave before we headed off at least
NASA has decided to get the astronauts who went up on a crippled Boeing star liner to return on a space X next year. in short: they dont trust the spacecraft for human flight. You cant write fiction funnier than this.
Funny bones ain't that funny when you scrape one across a door frame. I was carrying my recycle box back inside and I'm like "DON'T THROW IT. DON'T THROW IT".
That would miss the point of the protest. It was a mass action from the community, where a broad range of unions and non-union organisations participated, to rally together and voice our response to the extreme administration bills. I've gone into a little detail on my perspective here. Overall, we must recognise the way this bill was handled as a knowingly-inappropriate response to the situation and a threat to the whole labour movement.
In case I need to state it, I'm not defending corruption, I'm not saying that there aren't people who should be charged and removed. There are real problems with the CFMEU and the members should be empowered to root it out of their union. Putting in a dictator with huge conflicts of interest with the workers is not how to do that. That's how to union-bust.
and protest outside of federal liberal party headquarters demanding equal action on political corruption
The Liberal party didn't do this. The protest is critiquing the Labor party and their attack on the labour movement.
The Liberal party also probably couldn't care less about the protesters, might as well be vegans threatening to boycott a butcher. Union reps are a major component of the Labor party, and union rank-and-file are a large part of their voter support base.
We've had Royal commissions into the severe misconduct of the banking and finance sector, the Robodebt scandal, and the aged care sector. Each of these Royal commissions had DAMMING FINDINGS, yet NOT ONE person lost their job, NOT ONE company was put into administration, and NOBODY went to JAIL!
The CFMEU on the other hand - one of Australia's strongest unions, is now FORCED straight into administration on the back of a handful of rumours and allegations.
The HYPOCRISY is staggering!!
We call on all jobs to stop at 10am this Tuesday to support the CFMEU and attend a Rally at the State Library[*] 11am sharp!
Let's fight for our wages and conditions!
Let's fight for the future!
Let's all stand together!
SEE YOU ALL THERE!!!!
* Note the venue has genuinely changed to Trades Hall as of about 11 AM today.
So their argument is: some other bigwigs were corrupt, and government stuffed up robodebt, therefore we should be allowed to continue being corrupt thugs on building sites! If that’s the best argument they’ve got, they’re in trouble.
No, that's not what they were saying. For starters, they're clearly pointing out that the hypocrisy is that "The CFMEU [is being forced into administration] on the back of a handful of rumours and allegations", contrasting that against the "damning findings" of the Royal commissions which were tolerated, not that the CFMEU "should be allowed to be corrupt" (where did that strawman come from?!). Also, the ETU are not the CFMEU.
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It National Dog Day today
A blanket fort! Very cute!
Inherited doggie from my mum after she was put into a home.
Been awhile now so no longer with us.
This was a few weeks after we adopted her, but here's my old dog Ruby. She loves with my ex now. Happy National Dog Day!
::: spoiler Ruby :::
Sleepy dogs are so cute!
Doggo in cat hammock being guard. If I can get the photo to load.....
He's very cute and also the same name of my dog.
Dogs bring smiles to people faces. ☺
I think I love Toby.
Oh my. I'm in love with his little grumpy face!
Hey! that's not a koala!
He's actually a thieving little bastard but I love him.
With a face like that though all you can do is forgive the little guy.
I haven6got a dog but there are 3 dogs important to me. One is this guy and the other was this guy. Both dogs helped my son get over his fear of dogs. And then there was Rook, the 2ish year old jet black great Dane, who is a great big baby who lived down the road from me. Unfortunately his owners were evicted so the landlord could do extensive renovations and I don't see him anymore 😢
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Just got Sammi home - it's like she's back to normal. She actually scarfed Zooki's roo mince which she wasn't supposed to have, inhaled the Hills vet food that she was, used the tray and is walking around reacquainting herself with the place.
If you saw her Wednesday and then today, the only difference in her is the shaved spot where they took the bloods. Oh and no purrs - I might be on her shit list for awhile.
Anyway ultrasound Wednesday, they're going to let me know what time.
I'm glad to hear she's feeling better ❤️
First day of new job 😬 hoping to not have a napkin-sneeze moment
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Hey good luck, 🤞🏼
Good luck!
Have a great day!
Went to check out a school with/for the eldest minipeeler. It seems like such a great fit for him. So hard to get a school that can help him with his anxiety, school refusal and need for re-engagement. It's a tiny school though and they have such limited places. I'm not the praying kind but I'm praying for him to get accepted. We will formally begin the application process tomorrow for next year 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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So many hugs and kisses for eldest mini and hugs for you too for helping him find a good school.
I’m having an unbelievably hard time of life. I’m just not getting a break.
Melbcat is feeling more comfortable with adequate pain relief though, ate some wet food and is cuddling. I’m waiting for Tuesday and counting down to receiving the antibiotics
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many hugs and kisses
and if you ever need anything just drop a line
Any improvement Sammi had was minimal, so I phoned the vet and they've admitted her for observation and further tests (including hopefully an abdominal ultrasound).
Cross fingers for us.
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Hire a cable cat?
Payday today!! I'm trying to get the enthusiasm levels up like all you Wednesday pay people from last week, but when you have a strict budget it's all divided up and spent before you get it anyway.
It is nice seeing the car money creeping higher though - I've gone from "could buy another car the same as mine if I crash it" level to being able to get something that's a bit nicer. Slowly moving towards the point I can buy a car I would actually choose to buy without being forced by the death of my current one.
Monday pay people represent! The boss does our payslip in the morning but our pays sometime during the afternoon, so it's a small "yay" when I get the email and a bigger more relieved "YAY" when the bread is in the bag.
We used to get the pay slip available on the pay system some random time during the day, but there is no email or any notification so you just have to keep checking if it is there. Recently they started doing it earlier so it is there over the weekend which is much better. We have a stupidly complicated pay structure with varying penalty rates so we always have to go through and double check everything for errors (although not everyone's math skills are up to the task, so they probably get away with a lot of mistakes).
My bank now notifies me when the actual money goes into the bank, so that is always nice to see.
my pay doesn't land until Thursday night, dammit. I much preferred a previous job where it would arrive on a Tuesday afternoon. somehow that feels much more civilised.
Fingers crossed it comes back online!
Aye I'm glad the ways of the elders have trickled down to the youth.
I've fixed many an old box TV by smacking it on the side.
I have a laptop I use as a seedbox whose fan will just randomly start freaking out. Sounds like a jet plane.
I kick it.
It stops freaking out.
We have an understanding.
This week’s shit weather is brought to you by my annual leave. Not. Happy. Jan.
Yay. Day 1 down with no embarrassing moments to report. New place is nice. They have cold soda water water on tap 😍
Awesome. 🥤
Vet just called - as before, nothing detected in the external examination and nothing in the blood tests. They're going to x-ray her and if nothing shows up on that, organise an ultrasound. Also they'll give her fluids and an anti nausea injection since she has been vomiting on and off since Thursday.
You wish they could just tell you what's going on.
You do 😕
so many gentle hugs and good wishes
Thank you 😊
works gone to complete and utter shit. We're being forced into this project that we all know is gonna end in a complete dumpster fire, but we (as in everyone in my department, managers included) cant do anything to stop it. Gonna chat to my boss and just say "look I cant reconcile this shit, you want it done? Fine, but I dont want to talk about it for a second more than we have to". The greater department has this habit of turning their meetings into therapy/bitching sessions and I'm just not here for it.
Till this Project Doom is completed we're sticking to facts any talking about it as little as possible.
thats fair enough isnt it? Honestly sat in the meeting where it was announced on seek, and I dont reckon I was alone in that.
I'm wary of places where meetings become therapy/bitch sessions. I never know how much that stuff is gonna get twisted, taken out of context, used against you etc. Risky overflow into unprofessional behaviour.
What's the project? I'm incredibly curious. Is it a migration of some sort?
You guessed it. I cant say too much publicly, but imagine a migration you wouldn't wanna touch with a 10 foot pole and your probably thinking of it.
8.5 hours straight with no lunch break (by my own choice because I didn't want to spend even longer outside). Ugh, I had hoped it would be a short day today - it was easy at least, mostly support for someone else and driving - but just a lot of time standing around not working on my assignment, while my brain and guts are in stress overdrive again. I'm glad that my work now ends when I leave, but whose bright idea was it to reintroduce ongoing stress with uni!!!
I'm going to just eat and lie down for a bit before I attempt to do any uni stuff. I'm 70% of the way there. Just need to skim through enough articles to cite them appropriately...
I just saw this. I haven't used Zotero but the Lemmy nerds recommend it https://mander.xyz/post/17175983
as an academic, zotero is absolutely the way to go.
Endnote does a job, but is comparatively slow, clunky and huge as a program - not to mention expensive, if you don't have institutional access.
Even WITH institutional access to endnote, I use zotero and pay for syncing myself.
This whole CFMEU saga is equally entertaining and concerning.
In summary, years of corruption and criminal infiltration on work sites are finally coming to light and heads are rolling.
Colour me surprised
When unlawful power is called out and given a good smacking? Always entertaining to watch from a safe distance. Unions are not per se bad, but when the power inherent in them is abused it's good to know that there are some ways to rein them in. You may be too young to remember the whole Painters & Dockers Union stuff, but they did things like murder people. As well as run-of-the-mill corruption and stuff. No-one was surprised when that union was forcibly de-registered - except maybe the members of the union. Seems like the CFMEU have forgotten that lesson.
My biggest concern about this whole saga is how long it's taken to get to this point. I worked on CFMEU sites for a decade or so (non union role) and thought it was bad then. Like absolutely transparent corruption and no one seemed to care.
Also disappointing that unions are meant to protect workers against shit conditions and bad management. Now they're becoming the monster they were suppose to slay.
The cultist mentality is pretty messed up too. Glad it's being taken care of, but I don't trust either gov party to act as administrators.
Yeah, the whole power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely thing. Unfortunately inevitable, unless there is robust pushback from the rank & file. Same thing happens with political parties. The point of short electoral cycles is that the bad apples can be booted out before they've done much damage. Variable election dates also help with the booting process. What gets really nasty is a fixed election cycle like in the USA - where the last 2 years of an election cycle is spent getting re-elected instead of actually accomplishing anything. The appointment of a 'king' with no pre-specified end date for power works quite well if the 'king' is sensible, but if a bad apple gets power ....
Pushback from union members would be something, but unfortunately there was very visible intimidation from Setka's supporters. The more I look at our Federal 3 year terms the more I appreciate it. Also having 8-10 weeks for an election is perfect.
To be fair there are plenty of non-evil unions. I've found the Australian Services Union pretty good.
Yeah for real. The CFMEU is just the most prolific and loud. I'm with CPSU and they're kind of a toothless dog, but do help out when needed.
I found CPSU to be entirely useless when needed, Sadly.
I've heard they can be shit. So far they've been okay mostly for us. Hopefully I won't have to lean on them for anything.
100% agree. Love watching people get their just deserts.
First cherry blossom out! which means shorts starting from tomorrow.
Mine are almost finished.
Jeez mines' a bit slow then!
edit: should point out that this one only flowers for a week then a small gust of wind it's all gone.
I've been getting about ten days of petals the last few years. Less and less each year :(
Despite being directly the in projected storm path, we were spared the brunt of it.
Wind and rain for about 15 minutes and then some small hail.
Overall, not the worst we've had.
Apart from the power going off for maybe half an hour, which was kinda fun tbh, it wasn't as bad as we were expecting.
My gutter struggled inner east :( I am sick of ladders. At least the roof didn't leak for once.
I was gonna say, not that bad out here either. Fair bit of lightning and thunder but no hail or anything. Apparently emerald copped it though.
Cousins in Sunbury had it bad like 20 minutes before it hit us. I think we were on the edge of the clouds and they got the centre.
Geez this stranded astronaut thing is a schmozzle. They are doing a lot of ‘everything is fine’ PR, but it must be stressful to be stuck up there, and I’m sure there are some very tense discussions being had.
I feel really sorry for them, they certainly didn't sign up for this. It reminds me of Sergei Krikalev, the guy who was stuck in space while the Soviet union collapsed and the country that sent him into space no longer existed.
It's the last week of the month. If you want to change jobs now is a great time to apply for roles coming up to 14 days old
Recruiters' commission is monthly and job ads are usually up for 2 weeks. Applying for something that's going to close soon now means they'll try extra hard to place you before the month ends.
I want to know why my very top lemon, at least 2.something metres up was eaten by something (guessing a rat) and they ignored the many lower ones. Is it sport? showing off? Big respect but that would not have been easy.
Fruit bat.
Ooh could be. I always suspected a possum, then rats and now a new culprit.
They eat the high up fruit
F today right up the B
That's still A to B
Bunghole?
Sideways.
One thing I'm really quite good at is packing to go on a trip really quickly. I've got like 3 laptops, an ipad, a 27" monitor, a media streamer, PS5 controller and all manner of cables, my clothes and my CPAP machine all fitting snuggly into my trusty suitcase. Then I have my backpack of stuff and a tote with foodstuffs and my blender. All took maybe 30-40 minutes and there was a shower in there too.
There's a shower... in your luggage? 🤔
That's a lot of electronics. I take my phone and a cable. That's it.
Yeah, impressive you can pack so much so quickly. Maybe it's time to get a Steam Deck and cut down on some of the hardware
I hadn't been back to see the replies until now but this trip is a week at my parents housesitting so most of the electronics are for work. I have my personal laptop for personal stuff/gaming, work MacBook pro which I'm using now, work iPad, work windows laptop which I'm configuring as a Cloud PC kiosk device. Each of these serve different functions I'm testing. I probably could have left the iPad at home to be honest but it doesn't take up much room so I threw it in in case someone needed me to test something.
The shower was something I had in those 30-40 minutes not something I packed in my bag lol
My media streamer is an NVIDIA Shield Pro. I only brought it because my parents TV is too old for most streaming apps to work properly and now that I'm using the iPhone I can't stream to the Chromecast I gave them years ago.
If I'm going proper traveling none of the work stuff comes with me, or the monitor.
That's plenty lol.
For me, 1 laptop (hopefully can replace with a Windows tablet), an iPhone and a Samsung phone, few chargers. Plus clothes and toiletries.
An extra router if it's an international trip.
train went pass south yarra
spotify ad 2000s Dad Rock Mix
excuse me what
-find the playlist- WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS AND GOING UNDER ARE MUSIC FOR OLD PEOPLE NOW?
okay
the joke "Someone remembered to wake Billie Joe, yeah?" on the 1/10th will never not be funny, so I guess in a sense it always has been dad rock?
Instructions unclear (or I couldn't read them without my glasses), now Billy Joel is mad at me and demanding I get out of his house for some reason.
Yep. We're old.
I hate when my fears come true like this.
I was surprised by the Wattle Festival and just the sheer size of it yesterday. We only did part of the main street of Hurstbridge and we hardly got to the whole thing.
Yes, they had the steam train out again. I might try to get the kids on there next year because they were getting tired around 11 and we had afternoon plans. We got to see it leave before we headed off at least
NASA has decided to get the astronauts who went up on a crippled Boeing star liner to return on a space X next year. in short: they dont trust the spacecraft for human flight. You cant write fiction funnier than this.
Sounds more like a horror.
Russia have an emergency escape ship docked at all times. They arnt screwed. just more efficient to wait for the next American ship.
this week my old printer is going to the electronic rubbish bin 👋
Good lord. Spotify free version doesn't even let me play a single song I want to hear, just a playlist that includes it. What a disaster
I never joined and don't listen . Once last.fm died as a music player I gave up enrolling and getting subs and apps
looks like a nice day to go out for a bit
luv youse all 😘 have a nice arvo
You too mate 👍
Funny bones ain't that funny when you scrape one across a door frame. I was carrying my recycle box back inside and I'm like "DON'T THROW IT. DON'T THROW IT".
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An extra strong flat white and an excessively large slice of chocolate cake please.
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A perfect breakfast, thankyou.
Bacon & eggs please, and a cure for Mondays.
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resignation letter ✉️
Perfect!
Could I pls have a dumpling but with a delicately placed bit of spring onion on top slightly to the left of centre.
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Thank you :)
Youre early! I'll get the brekky special thanks
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Aww thanks, how did you know? Worms are my favourite 😍
I've been reading stuff on the internets.
Wikipedia is wrong!!
The Edit Wars are getting worse.
a pub?
I'm sorry I don't want to dox myself 👀
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how did that happen I hit reply.
For those going to the CFMEU protest tomorrow, be advised the location has been changed to the Trades Hall due to expected large crowd.
I think it would be more politically astute to accept the charges
and protest outside of federal liberal party headquarters demanding equal action on political corruption
That would miss the point of the protest. It was a mass action from the community, where a broad range of unions and non-union organisations participated, to rally together and voice our response to the extreme administration bills. I've gone into a little detail on my perspective here. Overall, we must recognise the way this bill was handled as a knowingly-inappropriate response to the situation and a threat to the whole labour movement.
In case I need to state it, I'm not defending corruption, I'm not saying that there aren't people who should be charged and removed. There are real problems with the CFMEU and the members should be empowered to root it out of their union. Putting in a dictator with huge conflicts of interest with the workers is not how to do that. That's how to union-bust.
The Liberal party didn't do this. The protest is critiquing the Labor party and their attack on the labour movement.
The Liberal party also probably couldn't care less about the protesters, might as well be vegans threatening to boycott a butcher. Union reps are a major component of the Labor party, and union rank-and-file are a large part of their voter support base.
Here's a quote from the ETU:
* Note the venue has genuinely changed to Trades Hall as of about 11 AM today.
So their argument is: some other bigwigs were corrupt, and government stuffed up robodebt, therefore we should be allowed to continue being corrupt thugs on building sites! If that’s the best argument they’ve got, they’re in trouble.
No, that's not what they were saying. For starters, they're clearly pointing out that the hypocrisy is that "The CFMEU [is being forced into administration] on the back of a handful of rumours and allegations", contrasting that against the "damning findings" of the Royal commissions which were tolerated, not that the CFMEU "should be allowed to be corrupt" (where did that strawman come from?!). Also, the ETU are not the CFMEU.